A.M. Roundup: NYRA made $1.2M overpayment

Good morning! We’re still living in the middle of a cold front, so it feels like October instead of May. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany but has no announced public schedule. State legislators are scattered. NYSERDA officials will announce a new grant for RPI’s supercomputer later this morning, and in an hour Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson will speak in Manhattan. Here are this morning’s headlines…

Bill Hammond: Sprinkling Bellagios across upstate New York is far from the clear economic winner Cuomo makes it out to be.//The closer you look, in fact, the more it looks like a losing bet. (DN)

“I think they’re afraid of you,” Cuomo said to NY1’s Zack Fink. “I think you strike fear into the hearts of men and women.” (NYT)

“This is a window of opportunity,” IDC leader Jeff Klein said at a Buffalo hearing on public campaign finance. “We passed the most comprehensive gun law in the nation because of the terrible tragedy in Sandy Hook.” (BN)

Actress Angelina Jolie had a double-mastectomy to minimize the risk of breast cancer. (NYT)

Happy Birthday to…

Howard Wolfson and Emily Giske

What you missed yesterday…

An itemized look at where Eric Adams spent money for his trip to Korea … the Oneidas are giving money for a name change of Cooperstown’s school sports teams … Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. is voting against public campaign finance … and Cuomo doesn’t want scandal to swallow the session.